Category: History

If you have a general image of a timeline of major world events in your mind, and a particularly good image of world’s map, then you can understand things a lot better. And this way, events become part of your memory too. For instance, let’s make a general timeline of the world from religious perspective.…

After Ranjit Singh’s empire, I have always been fascinated by Maratha and Mysore. But making a movie like “Chaava” is an absolute disgrace to history as well as cinema. In 1526, Babar won the First Battle of Panipat against Ibrahim Lodhi and established the Mughal Empire in India: ending Delhi Sultanate’s rule. But was that…

One of the most happening years in human history was the year ‘1799’. That was the time when French Revolution ended even though King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were murdered in 1793 and Maximilian Robespierre – one of the architects of the revolution – was killed in 1794. The revolution was against the…

Let’s have some classic words’ resonance in our current times. For literary and educational purposes. Orwellian times: when the internet is disrupted and social media sites are blocked. And the truth remains hidden. Frankenstein’s monster: when your own creation goes against you. 1984: when you can’t speak what you want to say. When you can’t…

London. It’s the city of Orwell’s Animal Farm. Marx’s grave. Dickensian. Shakespeare’s plays. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. Tolkien’s Hobbit. It’s also the city of Churchill. Margaret Thatcher. Newton. Florence Nightingale. Alexander Fleming. It’s also the city of Judi Dench. Daniel-Day Lewis. And some other spectacular people on screen. It’s…

There are two extremes. On one side are apparent liberals and on the other side is everyone else. For last some days, some cruel comments on past figures are being thrown without seeing the historical norms of that time. But history isn’t as clueless as these commentators. Aisha RA was born in 613 AD. Some…

Before the arrival of Julius Caesar (born in 100 BC), Rome was a republic. It had a Consul, appointed by the Senate, who ran the country as a head. The Senate also had the power to remove the Consul anytime. After defeat of Spartacus – a slave who rebelled against Rome – three military men…